Christmas Level

gaarie · Post by **gaarie** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:20 pm

For my 2nd Bi-annual Halo 1/2 LAN Party (phew!), I want to make a Christmas themed level because it's over Christmas break. The pine trees would have baubles, Master chief might have a santa hat on, and the guns would need to be re-textured. I have a few questions.
1. If I put this on my modded xbox, and I started this game, could other xbox's play my game without a mod chip?
2. Would this create too many on-screen polygons and crash the game? Does this matter on xbox?
3. I opened the map (Bloodgulch) in sparkedit, and exported it (as a .obj) to 3dsmax 7. There I added some pine trees. I exported the map as a wavefront obj.. How do I convert it back into a map, or am I taking the wrong approach entirely? Are there any easier ways to add pine trees, then how would I add baubles?
4. Would I use milkshape to create the santa hat? Or will that create too many vertices? Does that even matter on xbox version?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm very new to xbox halo modding. I have some PC modding experience though. Any help would be appreciated.

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:57 pm

most of what you said would only be possible in halo1 and i dont mod halo1 so i cant help you there

gaarie · Post by **gaarie** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:01 pm

alright, thanks. I've seen people re-skin things, how would I do this? Whats the best tool to export dds bmps?

gaarie · Post by **gaarie** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:07 pm

BTW, I still need help doing all this in Halo 1.

ParaplegicSK8ER · Post by **ParaplegicSK8ER** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:28 pm

Best way to reskin is using photoshop, just extract the bitmap and edit it and inject it. For the halo 1 part check out the HEK tutorials on the front page.